Images in Picassa.

These are two of the images from Picassa.  Original and then B&W.  Can't apply filers in Picassa but have done in Lightroom - just can't same them or blog them ...............

Colours into tones in B&W

This exercise represents my total frustration with this OCA course.  I have completed the exercise taking a colour picture (clothespegs) with a grey card (magazine image actually).  Put it into Lightroom and applied 4 filters to see 4 results.  Learnt a lot from this exercise but I don't know how to save each image.  I have had no lightroom training other than online stuff and forums and there is knowone to ask.  Forums are so impersonal and I really need a genuine human being to relate to.  I have made the decision that this type of course is just not for me.

Colour relationships

The plug and diary are yellow / purple in a ration of 1:3
Scissors to file red to green 1:1, although there is probably more of the green file than there should be.
Orange on blue filing case 1:2.

Primary and secondary colours

Green dominating

Yellow dominating with darker image shot at f5.6 and lighter image f11

Blue dominating

 Orange / beige dominating

Purple

This is a series of photographs to illustrate primary and secondary colours, some shot at different speeds ./ exposures to alter colour strength.  The red wreaths darken considerably on the centre image taken at f13 compared to the top image at f18.

Controlling strength of colour

This is a series of images of a light blue wall shot at 1/50th second from f3.5 (lightest) through to f8.0 (darkest).  The colour saturation is more intense at the smallest aperture where the image is underexposed.

Photographers eye book

Just bought Michael Freemans book from which the TAOP course is drawn.  Gives more explanation and expands on each point so very usedful to augment course.

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 notes from cnorris500

Assignment 1

Assessment 1 notes from cnorris500

Studio

Playing with naturally occuring shapes in the environment and used my yoga studio as an example.  Tried to produce abstract images and used naturally occuring light to produce shapes rather than simply record products.

Flash

As a result of doing a flash course I bought a Nikon SB-700 speedlight for my DSLR.  Am selling a lens on ebay and took the first shot using the built in camera flash, the second using the speedlight.  Bounced the flash off the wall in the corner of the room to get side lighting as well and the difference between the 2 images is considerable.  Used iTTL with the built in defuser to soften the light a little.